Friday, October 1, 2010

Favourite Things Friday: Giveaways

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. –William Shakespeare

I super l♥ve giveaways! The blogging community is so generous! {Not to mention clever at turning their 'trash' into someone else's 'treasure.'} I've had quite a bit of luck in the winning-other-people's-giveaways department. And I've done a couple of fun giveaways myself.

Right now, the Fall into Fall giveaway extravaganza is going on. Click on the cute little scarecrow to be taken to a directory of 151 bloggers {including eight business blogs} who are currently hosting giveaways!


I debated back and forth whether or not I'd like to participate. I love giveaways, but I only had a semi-OK idea of what to do for my own give away. Nothing really brilliant was coming to mind. Entries for participation were due on Wednesday. I waited until the very last minute, but decided that even if my prize wasn't out-of-this world, it would still be fun to participate. So, I sent my little e-mail off. Unfortunatley, I found out yesterday that the cyber gnomes had diverted it and I'm not officially participating :cry:. Too bad, because this morning I had a brilliant idea to improve my first giveaway and a great idea for a second giveaway. So I've decided go rogue and do a my own giveaway thing. I've put each giveaway in a separate post {hey, it's my giveaway and I'll be anal organized if I want to :lol:} and am making this post the directory, because giveaways are one of my favourite things :biggrin:.

Guy and Eva Earring Giveaway {closed; congratulations to the winner, Cynthia L.}
Zelda's Fancy Hat Giveaway {closed; congratulations to the winner, JaiCi}
Cutting with the Go! Giveaway {closed; congratulations to the winners, Marcia and Deb}

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6 comments:

Shay said...

You're in giveaway mode arent you E! This is a fabulous idea for a FTF post.

Giveaways are almost everyone's favourite thing and you've been so generous with yours.

Sarcastic Quilter said...

Hey, this is almost my post! Giveaways are my favorite, too but I didn't procrastinate and made it in. (hehe, did you bristle when the "mom" sentence came at you?)

I'm off to see your great giveaways now, hope on over and enter mine, if it appeals, and have a good weekend.

Larri said...

Giveaways are a great favourite! Visiting from FTF. Thanks for sharing. :o) Larri at Seams Inspired

AnnieO said...

I've had a few small giveaways of my own and they are really fun--I've even been lucky to win a few out there in blogland. Thanks for the FTF post!

whimsyfox said...

Yay!!!! off to check it out......

Michelle said...

Giveaways are fun!